Abby Baxter works in the offices of an online magazine as a way to get a writing job using her journalism degree. She helps her journalist friend with a story idea that turns into a popular feature story. But to write more stories it involves her fake dating another person. The draw for Abby is she may get credit for the writing she is doing towards the project and get her own bi-line.

Erica Goode is works two jobs and is a single parent to her eight year old Kayla. She feels a spark when meeting Abby and agrees to the dating arrangement. The big complication comes from Abby not wanting a real relationship with anyone who has children. And Erica needs to protect Kayla from getting attached to mom’s new friend.

This is a sweet and easy story. Both Abby and Erica are kind and have reasons for protecting their hearts. And I like that Abby comes clean early on about the realities of the situation. Kayla is cute and acts age appropriate. One very minor thing that took me out of the story a little is that the setting is a vague, unnamed city. Neither have cars and rely on public transportation. Very few cities in the USA aren’t car reliant (e.g. NYC). It didn’t surprise me that the author lives internationally and is probably used to good transit systems. I’m not sure if the setting is a US city other than a business they are promoting that serves American comfort food. Again, this was a minimal distraction for me and doesn’t take away from the story itself.